Radford Division etts

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John,

If you contact me off list at gordonshamilton at cox.net, I may be able to
transmit an example of a sheet from a timetable and from a track chart.

Gordon Hamilton



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Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Radford Division etts


> John
>
> The employee timetables would have schedules, miles from Norfolk,
> special instructions and more, but would not have locations of signals
> or track charts. I would imagine the archives has copies of most any
> year in the 1950s, but finding signal locations and track charts is a
> bit more of a stretch. I would like to find those for the 1946-1954 era
> myself to produce a dispatcher simulation for Train Dispatcher for the
> Radford Division and after making that work, the other divisions with
> proper information. Timetables I can help you with, the other???
>
> Ken Miller
>
> On Dec 20, 2004, at 10:36 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
>
> > All,
> >  How can I get a copy of or buy a Radford Division Employee Timetable.
> > Early 50's woud be great 1954 would be perfect. I am interested in the
> > Walton to Roanoke area. The Radford Division Timetable would be the
> > one to have, right?
> >
> >  The Timetable would have?
> > signal locations
> > track charts
> > track speeds
> > and all scheduled trains?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > John Rhodes
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon 12/13, < nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org > wrote:
> >
> > From: [mailto: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org]
> > To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
> > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:38:34 -0800 (PST)
> > Subject: Shenandoah Division etts
> >
> > To: "N&amp;W Mailing List"
> > Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:24:06 -0500
> > Fro  m: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
> > Subject: Re: South Roanoke Telegraph Office
> >
> > Frank,
> >
> > I presume that you are referring to the Shenandoah
> > Division timetable. Do you want this particular
> > issue? We have scads of employee timetables
> > dating from just after the turn of the Twentieth
> > Century. While there are some gaps, we certainly have
> > the majority of those issued since then. Most
> > are by division, but some early ones are combined for
> > the system. The storage boxes of employee timetables
> > take up most of two shelves, each shelf being 6 - 8
> > feet long.
> >
> > Let me know what you want, and I'll check with
> > President Gillum about any cost to you. If you aren't
> > in a hurry for the copies, I could make
> > some the next time that I go to the archives. The old
> > timetables would be copied onto legal size sheets.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
> > December 13, 2004
> >
> > Good morning, Gordon:
> >
> > Thanks for letting me know about the employee
> > timeable  . It's good to know that so many of them
> > exist in the archives.
> >
> > I've held off buying the "partner's desk" plan so I
> > could buy a timetable copy at the same time.
> > Depending on cost, I might be interested in a set of
> > Shenandoah Division employee timetables about ten
> > years apart from as early as is available until 1957
> > or so.
> >
> > In doing so, if it is possible to determine the date
> > that Boyce was closed as an agency, that would
> > likewise be nice to know. In any event, thanks for
> > your assistance!
> >
> > Happy holidays to you and Jim,
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Dr. Frank R. Scheer, Curator
> > Railway Mail Service Library, Inc.
> > f_scheer at yahoo.com
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